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Portable.NET Now 100% Free Software

Posted by timothy on from the hey-that's-purer-than-ivory-soap dept.

rhysweatherley writes "Finally after months of hard work and bucket loads of caffeine, the DotGNU community has finally got Portable.NET to the point of building our C# libraries on many Free Software platforms with our own C# compiler. This is a big deal! Portable.NET is now 100% pure Free Software, with no dependencies on third party C# tools. The compiler, which is written in C, bootstraps off gcc, so there are no icky 'how to compile the compiler' problems. And it's fast! The DotGNU team consists of lots of contributors, many of whom are coincidentially named 'Rhys Weatherley,' but this wouldn't have been possible without the support of the DotGNU community, especially the Weekend Warriors. .NET is not the only thing we are doing. We're playing around with JVM and Parrot (of perl6 fame) backends to the compiler. And we have a C compiler front-end that generates pure bytecode apps that can run on any decent CIL implementation (Portable.NET, Mono, etc). We are about 95% of the way towards our first milestone of an ECMA-compatible C# implementation. There are lots of things still to be done in the low-level C# libraries, runtime engine, and the compiler. So, if you have some time on your hands, and like messing with languages and stuff, like yours truly ... have look and maybe have some fun!"

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  1. What springs to mind is by nagora · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    who the fuck cares? Imitating MS when you should be beating them is a waste of time.

    TWW

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  2. Re:yay by Phil+Wilkins · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The Gnu Hipppies produce another cheap imitation of some other companies cheap imitation of some other companies hard work and research!

  3. HELLO! Re:DotGnu and Mono by Natalie's+Hot+Grits · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    vi vs. emacs.. gee, let me think, emacs is a POS, its like comparing a piece of shit with something that doesn't smell like ass. emacs even has the word MAC in it, which also signifies that its fucking shit (like the iMac). I don't see how there could be a war between 2 things that aren't even remotely relevant to eachother...

    GNOME v KDE? gime a break, SUN is the only people that are using GNOME. Nobody gives a fuck about it. if it weren't for redshit and sun, GNOME would have died before 2.0, like it should have.

    anybody that doesn't believe the above is a fucking moron.

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